System is running Windows XP-SP3, all the latest updates as of last week. Avast is the free version of 7.0.1466. I know there's a patcher out there for the 4226's but... I've run full scans with Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware and Avast (including a boot time scan) so it's fairly safe to say the system is clean. I notice them at various times of the day, but almost always in the morning when I'm looking at the news, local paper, home town paper, etc. So I started trying to eliminate things, with any success. Finally I got to where I was turning off the shields in Avast, started with the web shield and the 4226's stopped. So I started watching things. I ran TCPview, and watched the number of established connections with and without the web shield enabled and the results surprised me. Note that the number of connections vary by day and these numbers are from testing last night, on one site (the Orlando Sentinel) I had 200 connections with the shield enabled, but only 68 without it. On another site the numbers were 162 with and 33 without. And every site I've watch has been with similar results. I can understand a small difference in the number, but to me this is a rediculous number. Anyone have any idea why the number of established connections is that much higher with the web shield enabled?
